To prevent dry socket, you need to do these

Many people experience pain a few days after tooth extraction, and the pain becomes more and more severe, and may even cause headaches. This indicates that dry socket has occurred. To prevent dry socket, you should pay attention to some matters after tooth extraction. Do not rinse your mouth or brush your teeth within 24 hours after tooth extraction.

1. Preventing dry socket

1. After tooth extraction, you should follow the doctor's instructions. It is strictly forbidden to brush your teeth, rinse your mouth, spit, or touch the wound with your tongue within 24 hours after tooth extraction. Protect the blood in the extraction socket and make it clot quickly to reduce the possibility of dry socket.

2. Try to eat soft food before the wound heals, avoid chewing on the side where the tooth was extracted, pay attention to the cleanliness of your food, and rinse your mouth and brush your teeth with light salt water.

3. Tooth extraction is not recommended during a severe cold or when you are in poor physical or mental condition, especially for the back teeth which are more difficult to extract.

4. If you are not careful when eating, it is easy for chewing fragments to remain in the mouth, infect the wound, and cause dry socket.

2. Treatment of dry socket

1. Here, we would like to remind everyone not to extract teeth if there is no need, especially to extract wisdom teeth, because dry socket is common in patients two or three days after tooth extraction. Patients will feel severe pain in the teeth, and general painkillers have no effect. At this time, you must go to a regular hospital for treatment, otherwise, it is easy to delay the patient's condition and make it worse;

2. As the cause of this disease is still unknown, we still need to know that women are more likely to get it than men. Moreover, smokers are five times more likely to get it than non-smokers. Therefore, male smokers should pay attention to their health and not think that they will not get this disease if they have a low risk of getting it. Sometimes, it is because of frequent smoking that one is more likely to get this disease.

3 During the treatment period, patients should pay attention to their diet. Because of toothache, they usually cannot eat normally. At this time, most of them rely on infusion to maintain life. However, some patients can still use a straw to suck some liquid food to replenish energy, such as milk, etc. However, they must also remember to get more sun exposure, which can supplement vitamin D and promote calcium production, which can be beneficial to the patient's recovery.